Bad Taste: Jimmy Carter's suicide squad

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 139 words

The scan: sc-n146-may-08-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: Jimmy Carter's suicide squad. Note: printed without the Bad Taste title panel or a number; between no. 72 (1 May 1980) and no. 73 (22 May 1980).

page 14 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip, printed without its title panel, after the failed US raid to rescue the Tehran hostages: two men picture Carter's suicide squad leaving corpses in the streets — think of their map-reading skills, they could end up anywhere — while a lost American soldier peers at his map. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 146, 8 May 1980, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. "Jimmy Carter's suicide squad .... 'doing a thankless task under difficult circumstances' etc etc"

2. "Corpses of innocent people littering the streets!" "Precisely! Think of their map reading skills!"

3. "They could end up anywhere!"

4. "You're paranoid!" (A helmeted American soldier studies a map, thinking of a compass with its points jumbled: "N, S, W, E?")

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